# Red Desert (1964)

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**Original title**: *Il deserto rosso*
**Runtime**: 117 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Michelangelo Antonioni
**Written by**: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
**Starring**: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims

> *This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The suburbs of 1960s Ferrara poison a woman’s psyche. Between a husband’s factory commissions and a lover’s borrowed car rides she rehearses her collapse in acid greens and toxic fog. A slow slide into chromatic delirium that almost feels chic.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, dread, slow-burn

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